PROPOSALS to hand over States reform to an independent commission with a wide brief covering all States seats, terms of office and voting rules have been formally published today.
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Population control is about ebb and flow
From Daniel Wimberley. THE opening sentence of your report on my proposals for a ‘population freeze’ (JEP, Saturday 25 June) was untrue and misleading. In view of the importance of this issue please will you publish this letter in response? Under the headline ‘Call To Freeze The Population’ the opening sentence read: ‘Immigration should be […]
Posted inNews, Property
Deputy calls for tax on landowners
A DEVELOPMENT tax on landowners whose fields are rezoned for housing could make millions, according to Deputy Daniel Wimberley.
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Why not just grin and bear the 13 meetings, willing to do what it takes to make a difference?
Last Tuesday’s JEP had only been out for an hour and already two States Members had congratulated me on taking over this column.
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Electoral reform: Only one response to consultation
JUST one member of the public responded to a call for people to express their views about how Jersey’s new Electoral Commission should be run.
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Business as usual will not work any longer
From Nick Palmer. I APPRECIATED Daniel Wimberley’s swansong letter (JEP, 14 October), as he approaches the end of his too brief membership of the States. While reading his criticisms of what he calls the ‘business party’ or ‘old guard’, I noticed that his letter left out some rather big topics. What was missing was criticism […]
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Deputy’s vote for democracy
A MAJORITY of States Members voted for the number of Senatorial seats to be reduced by four. That decision was reached democratically, but it is far from clear that its outcome will enhance the nature of Island democracy.
Posted inBusiness, News
Population increase ‘will benefit all’, says president
AN increase in the size of the population is the consequence of a successful economy which benefits all, according to the president of the Jersey Chamber of Commerce.
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States back referendum on Assembly and voting reform
JERSEY’S voting system and the make-up of the States will be reviewed after it was yesterday agreed to set up an electoral commission.
